Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.1
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
19427
Points per Word
0.000154
Page Count
144
Points per Page
0.020833
Description
When life gets difficult for Ana Rosa, a twelve-year-old would-be writer living in a small village in the Dominican Republic, she can depend on her older brother to make her feel better--until the life-changing events on her thirteenth birthday.